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Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body - Gilleard, Chris, and Higgs, Paul
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For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing and adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political ...

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Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body 2016, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781138157811

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Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body 2000, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780582356412

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